Automotive
A Mountain View, California, company has a vision of driver assistive truck platooning as a potential change maker for the trucking industry—in a good way, namely, carrying with it safety and fuel efficiency.
Jul 18, 2019 weblog
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Vehicle to vehicle communication is on auto industry minds as an important technology piece determining our safe driving future. Discussions around vehicle to vehicle "connected cars" are all about cars communicating with ...
Apr 17, 2019 weblog
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Fully autonomous vehicles may not be crisscrossing the United States just yet, but they are causing traffic on news sites and social media. New research shows this heavy media coverage influences how the public perceives ...
Jan 22, 2019
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As automated and autonomous vehicles become more common on U.S. roads, it's worth a look at what these machines can – and can't – do. At the University of Michigan's Mcity, where I serve as director, we're working to ...
May 23, 2018
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In 1938, when there were just about one-tenth the number of cars on U.S. roadways as there are today, a brilliant psychologist and a pragmatic engineer joined forces to write one of the most influential works ever published ...
Apr 24, 2018
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A new way of detecting driver drowsiness by tracking eye movement could help reduce the road toll, a world-first study has found.
Feb 06, 2018
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Drivers thumbing their nose at speed limits may one day get a surprise when the police car springing out to nab them is driverless, if a concept from Ford were to be realized. The automaker filed for a patent for an autonomous ...
Jan 27, 2018 weblog
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Robotics
A crew of supersized exoskeletons ready to race? Well, a machine teased as such, as the machine, of startling proportions, drew attention at CES this week. This curiosity is nearly 15 feet tall, 18 feet wide, and weighs more ...
Jan 11, 2018 weblog
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(Tech Xplore)—Drink before you drive.
Oct 03, 2017 weblog
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(Tech Xplore)—Panasonic has developed technology to help keep drivers safer from risks of drowsiness at the wheel. Cool air and louder music are engineered as remedies, for example, to keep the driver not only awake but ...
Aug 04, 2017 weblog
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Security
Researchers from EPFL and UNIL have developed an encryption protocol that can put drivers in touch with passengers while keeping their personal data secret.
Jun 30, 2017
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(Tech Xplore)—Did you really think General Motors would sit back and let Tesla hog the driving system spotlight for long? We didn't think so. Super Cruise is coming out in the 2018 Cadillac CT6 later this year. Andrew Hawkins, ...
Apr 11, 2017 weblog
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Other
Get caught using your smartphone while driving in the UK and you'll be in serious trouble. Authorities recently doubled the penalties for using a handset behind the wheel to six points on your licence and a £200 fine. Yet ...
Apr 04, 2017
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Have you listened to your car lately? In-vehicle sound technology designed at Michigan Technological University could keep your eyes on the road and your emotions in check.
Nov 25, 2016
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Robotics
(Tech Xplore)—A robot can solve a Rubik's Cube in 637 milliseconds. The robot, named "Sub1 Reloaded," pulled off the feat with the help of (1) microchips from Infineon and (2) microcontroller Aurix. The latter is described ...
Nov 11, 2016 weblog
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